Introduction

Abstract

This chapter illustrates the main characteristics of the analytical perspective adopted within the study. It starts by comparing this perspective to other approaches dealing with the same matter, and goes on to illustrate the hermeneutical challenges posed by the analysis of foreign aid. ‘The Foreign Aid Regime’, this chapter argues, represents an original, though preliminary and self-consciously limited, attempt to investigate the specific regime of governmental practices that is established and maintained by and through North-South foreign aid.